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pomp and power, the president of the united states abroad for a big nato summit but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across europe. trouble since he walked in. ron desantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks, the media. it might be the ugliest headline of the biden presidency a conversation about the biden family and the cruelty of counting to six versus seven. i'm dana bash. behind the head looilines and "e politics." up first, geopolitics, the preside...

t "the lead" starts right now. >> ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump's right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica's northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. >> we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list -- unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has be...

now, we do have new reporting on where yevgeny prigozhin was shortly after. the story keeps getting weirder. the only sort of bright spot for vladimir putin is ukraine's counter offensive has been slow. will cluster munitions change that, and how much blow back will president biden get for that. one nation against it is the uk, we have the latest on the president's stop in london this morning. there's a lot to get to. let us start with the reporting. joining me now, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and from kyiv, nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella. let's get to lithuania...

ukrainian offensive through this area. where they don't. i think they needed them. >> donald trump, the campaign trail, amidst new reporting today on classified documents and potential pressure campaign involving the irs to let his -- freedom caucus fracture is, the latest on an inept effort to oust marjorie taylor greene from the gop organization. plus, you are following some extreme heat that continues to stifle parts of the country as well as a threat of severe storms and others. an alarming health development, cases of malaria, cropping up in the u.s. from the first time in decad...

this means for special counsel jack smith's multiple investigations, and trump's third presidential bid. frightening future, the second year of a post-roe america looks worse than the first. we're going inside the all out episodes to keep the southeast swath of the country from turning into an abortion desert. all of this and more is coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and a good saturday morning to you i'm katie phang. we begin with a major show of support from the white house on what could become a critical turning point in the war in ukraine. the biden administration defending their controv...